that they understand.... a man’s reach should exceed his grasp. So should a child’s. For myself, I will never talk down to—or draw down to—children." On her favorite works: "Of all the books I have done, 'Miss Rumphius,' 'Island Boy,' and 'Hattie and the Wild Waves,' are the closest to my heart. These three are as near as I ever will come to an autobiography". Books illustrated Ake and His World, by Bertil Malmberg [1924, Swedish], 1940 Uncle Snowball, 1940 The King of Wreck Island, 1941 The Kellyhorns, 1942 Captain Pottle's House, 1943 Shooting Star Farm, 1946 American Folk Songs for Children, by Ruth Crawford Seeger, 1948 Just Plain Maggie, 1948 The Best Christmas, 1949 Kildee House, by Rutherford George Montgomery, 1949 Best Christmas, 1949 Animal Folk Songs for Children, Ruth Crawford Seeger, 1950 The Man Who Didn't Wash His Dishes, 1950 Read Me More Stories, 1951 The Pony That Ran Away, 1951 The Pony That Kept a Secret, 1952 Too Many Pets, 1952 Yours with Love, Kate, by Miriam Mason, 1952 Christmas in the Barn, 1952 Where Have You Been?, 1952 American Folk Songs for Christmas, by Ruth Crawford Seeger, 1953 Five Little Peppers (Margaret Sidney?), 1954 The Little Fir Tree, by Margaret Wise Brown, 1954 Little Women, by Louisa May Alcott [1868–69], 1955 City Springtime, 1957 Freckle Face, 1957 Chanticleer and the Fox, from Chaucer, adapted by Cooney, 1958 The American Speller, 1961 The Little Juggler, 1961 Le Hibou et La Poussiquette, poem by Edward Lear [1871], translation by Francis Steegmuller, 1961 Favorite Fairy Tales Told in Spain, 1963 Wynken, Blynken and Nod, poem by Eugene Field [1889], 1964 Papillot, Clignot et Dodo, poem by Eugene Field [1889], translation by Francis Steegmuller and Norbert Guterman, 1964 Mother Goose in French, translations by Hugh Latham, 1964 The Courtship, Merry Marriage, and Feast of Cock Robin and Jenny Wren, 1965 Snow White and Rose Red, based on Brothers Grimm [German], 1966 How the Hibernators Came to Bethlehem, 1966 A Little Prayer, 1967 Christmas, 1967 The Crows of Pearblossom, by Aldous Huxley, 1967 A Garland of Games and Other Diversions, 1969 The Owl and the Pussycat, poem by Edward Lear [1871], 1969 Bambi, a Life in the Woods, by Felix Salten [1923, German], 1970 Princess Tales, 1971 Seven Little Rabbits, 1972 "Squawk to the Moon, Little Goose", by Edna Mitchell Preston, 1974 Herman the Great, 1974 Favourite Fairy Tales Told in